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In 2090, thief Ella Locke gets hired as a spy and must con the virology lab’s director Dr. Hartley
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*Content Warning for Violence*
Knees were precious. Irreplaceable.
My mind dredged back Dad’s feral shrill on the night the Viper crushed those underrated stubs of his. But then my face—considering my overturned position—carried better smashing odds.
I wheezed like a mad woman while blood drained down to my head, making my temples pound with jackhammer might. The Vipers had tied my hands behind my back, so I was defenseless against the beads of sweat that charged at my eyes. I shut them and dodged the sting.
The Vipers granting me an extension on my debt was a long shot on a good day. No chance I could scheme them when dazed by the pain of hovering upside down, six feet from the warehouse’s concrete floor, strung by my ankles with a wire rope.
Metal screeched.
My eyelids fluttered at the racket, welcoming sweat onto my eyeballs. I blinked to soothe the burn.
Zee, forked tongue flopping, tattooed scales from head to toe, scraped the ground with a barbed baseball bat—same one that crippled Dad. Zee’s slit-pupil contact lenses locked on me as he snatched a gutting knife from the steel table. The blade skated across my neck.
I writhed, and the wire strangling my ankles dug deeper into my skin, hitting bone. I winced. Get it together, or he’ll know you lost the profit from the sale of the heaven.
“Mayron isn’t a patient man, Ella,” Zee said.
I willed an impish grin. “Thanks for the pep talk and all, but I can sell H much faster when I’m not tied up.” Hanging next to those frucking fuming barrels of psychedelic, which stunk of burned plastic, had sandpapered my vocal cords chain-smoker style.
Zee’s slit pupils edged closer, halting two inches from my sweat-drenched, upside-down carcass. “Think you’re funny?”
“Lighten up, man. I’ll have the money in two weeks top. No need to turn psycho on me.”
Ly Ann
The Author and The Psychologist
Ly Ann has a Ph.D. in psychology and works as a clinician to offer children and adults neuropsychological assessments and individual psychotherapy.
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